The following articles cover the modern history of Italy: *

Italian unification The unification of Italy ( it, Unità d'Italia ), also known as the ''Risorgimento'' (, ; ), was the 19th-century political and social movement that resulted in the consolidation of different states of the Italian Peninsula into a single ...

(1815-1861) *

History of the Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946) This articles covers the history of Italy as a monarchy and in the World Wars. Italian unification (1738–1870) Modern Italy became a nation-state during the Risorgimento on March 17, 1861, when most of the states of the Italian Peninsula and ...

** Italian Fascism **

Italian Colonial Empire The Italian colonial empire ( it, Impero coloniale italiano), known as the Italian Empire (''Impero Italiano'') between 1936 and 1943, began in Africa in the 19th century and comprised the colonies, protectorates, concessions and dependenci ...

History of the Italian Republic The history of the Italian Republic concerns the events relating to the history of Italy that have occurred since 1946, when 1946 Italian institutional referendum, Italy became a republic. The Italian republican history is generally divided into ...

(1945 to present) **

Years of Lead (Italy) , partof = the Cold War , image = Stragedibologna-2.jpg , image_size = 300px , caption = Aftermath of the bombing at the Bologna railway station in August 1980 which killed 85 people, the deadliest ev ...

(1969-1988) ** Berlusconi era (2001 to present)

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